While spending the week on the outskirts of Tiny Town at New Years, I got to thinking about the size of said town. Often people refer to the size of towns as "only having one stop light." Tiny Town is so small it doesn't have a single traffic light in the entire town.
As a matter of fact, it doesn't even have too many stop signs. The biggest decision in many years was the placement of a stop sign at the intersection of three highways on the northeast corner of the square. There were three stop signs on this corner before, but the placement of the fourth caused such confusion.
This is the main highway through town. It was considered the main drag. To place a stop sign there caused great distress. It was the main item in the weekly newspaper - for several weeks. People seemed to not be able to figure how to act now they had to stop!
Time has settled the anxiety. Traffic moves through the stop sign as though it has always been there.
It just shows how slowly time can move in these small towns. A change brings great anxiety! But after a while, it becomes normal again.
Peace.
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